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Varieties of Religion Today by Charles Margrave TaylorA Secular Age by Charles Margrave TaylorThe Varieties of Religious Experience by William JamesMeine Beichte by Leo TolstoyThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Reading List For Philosophy And Religion
146 books — 36 voters
The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Rel... by Bertrand RussellBreaking the Spell by Daniel C. DennettThe Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other ... by Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Notable Atheist Books
585 books — 998 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Holy Bible by Anonymousالقرآن الكريم by اللهThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Republic by Plato
The Most Influential Books
1,496 books — 5,301 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,339 books — 5,884 voters

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftCandide by VoltaireRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCommon Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas Paine
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Misanthrope by MolièreDiscourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 706 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainDracula by Bram Stoker
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,752 books — 6,906 voters
Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Marquise of O— and Other Stories by Heinrich von KleistElective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Tell by Friedrich SchillerHenry von Ofterdingen by Novalis
Best Books of the Decade: 1800s
50 books — 8 voters

The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
Best Books About Music/Musicians
111 books — 48 voters
On Writing by Stephen KingOn Writing Well by William ZinsserStorycraft by Jack R. Hart
Best How To Writing Books
99 books — 82 voters

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Well-Thought, Well-Researched, Infinitely Readable Nonfiction
449 books — 213 voters
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Best Narrative Nonfiction
194 books — 175 voters

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max WeberNarration and Knowledge by Arthur C. Danto
Best Books on Historical Theory
66 books — 32 voters
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLife of Pi by Yann MartelSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
50 Books That Will Change Your Life - Chapters/Indigo
476 books — 1,239 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyNeuromancer by William GibsonI, Robot by Isaac AsimovThe Stand by Stephen King
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,727 books — 25,800 voters
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantTractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosophical Investigations by Ludwig WittgensteinOn Liberty by John Stuart MillThe Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Best World Philosophy Book
955 books — 1,424 voters

Over de esthetiek by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelWhat Is Art? by Leo TolstoyAesthetic Theory by Theodor W. AdornoCritique of Judgment by Immanuel KantThe Philosophy of Art by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art
191 books — 77 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLolita by Vladimir NabokovLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,826 voters

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonDracula by Bram StokerThe Iliad by HomerPerfume by Patrick SüskindThe Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,550 books — 123,952 voters